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--> FAMILY Phyllostomidae
--> SUBFAMILY Carolliinae
--> GENUS Carollia
SPECIES Carollia brevicauda
Author: | Schinz, 1821. | Citation: | Das Thierreich, 1: 164. | Common Name: | Silky Short-tailed Bat | Type Locality: | Brazil, Espirito Santo, Jucu River, Fazenda de Coroaba. | Distribution: | E Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and N & E Brazil; Trinidad. | Status: | IUCN 2003 and IUCN/SSC Action Plan (2001) – Lower Risk (lc). | Comments: | Long confused with perspicillata or subrufa; see Pine (1972). Range restricted to N South America and E Panama by Baker et al. (2002), who referred all Central American records (from W Panama north through Mexico) to sowelli. It is possible that these taxa occur in sympatry in Panama, but this has not yet been demonstrated. |
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| Offspring: | Synonyms:
bicolor Wagner, 1840 grayi Waterhouse, 1838 lanceolatum Natterer, 1843 minor Gray, 1866
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